A security researcher has released exploit code for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens by tricking users into clicking a ...

I was so uncomfortable I just threw my things inside and left. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and teaches philosophy ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Wildlife researchers have found an unconventional way to help control invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades – by using one of the snakes’ favorite prey. Opossums are a key food source for ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

You hear about it everywhere, from LinkedIn posts to keynote speakers to job listings: Learning to use AI is the way to get ahead in your job and help future-proof your career. But you may not know ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...

The feature is a middle-ground between cautious handholding and dangerous levels of autonomy. The feature is a middle-ground between cautious handholding and dangerous levels of autonomy. is a ...

Shortages of food, medicine, water and fuel have plunged Cuba into a deepening humanitarian crisis, leaving residents in the dark with deteriorating public services. The crisis, driven by systemic ...

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...